Here is a “Clever” idea that might be pretty useful for anyone that is in and outside for a living with their mobile device or wants that added protection form the elements. RingerWraps, made by CleverWraps, is a cool little high grade poly bag that fits a variety of of mobile phones with the three … Read more
App downloads are only one metric but getting someone to download an app just to have them uninstall it doesn’t do you a lot of good. Well analytics firm Localytics tracked Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 apps and found that the rate of one-time app usage was around 26%. That’s pretty high. … Read more
The Dell Streak has in every way exceeded my expectations. It is a solidly built device that is really the best of both worlds. The Streak operates very well as a phone, rather large, but call quality is excellent and even avoids those dropped calls past devices experienced crossing over from 3G to Edge. The … Read more
We have all been buzzing about AT&T finally getting a a flagship Android device in the Motorola ATRIX 4G and getting some attractive pricing from Amazon. Today, Amazon added the Motorola DROID BIONIC heading to Verizon to the list as well. You remember the DROID BIONIC right? Buried under all the iPhone 4 news is … Read more
So the web is in a tizzy that Android so quickly took 22% of the tablet market – a huge bite out of the iPad with seemingly one major tablet – The Tab. So you can only imagine what next year will offer. Well the only problem is that the 22% figure is wrong. See, … Read more
Gotta admit Feb 10th is making me uncomfortable. This month over half of the Android handset impressions ad network Chitika served were Verizon hits. Meaning Verizon is Android’s best friend – with benefits. AT&T Android ad impressions? Two percent. Two percent versus fifty five. Since Christmas Android sales have cooled down but iPhone sales have … Read more
Got another behind the scenes writer exchange worth forking onto the site. We’re talking iPads, we’re talking cheapness and I’m handing the torch off to you because the well that is their collective knowledge on this subject has run dry. I can only do this once in a while or they’ll catch onto me and … Read more
Howard Stern’s been pushing Sirius XM’s smartphone app (available on Android, iPhone, Blackberry) aggressively and today he remarked that Sirius, now armed with reach to smartphone users Sirius (his show in particular) will more effectively crush terrestrial radio. Robin noted her pleasant gym experience yesterday with her phone linked into Sirius yesterday. I thought to … Read more
Bought a Motorola Backflip and after seeing your buddy’s Focus you got super jealous about the tiles or whatever? Your blasphemous prayers have been answered – that’s right, we’ve now got a WP7-like launcher for Android courtesy of Android Technical dubbed Windows Phone Android sitting on the market. Not joking: You might think that Android … Read more
You can say it’s quantity over quality if that makes you feel better but the Q4 figures from NPD show that Android swept the market with 53% of phone sales. Adding to the pummeling, as speculated, Windows Mobile outsold Windows Phone 7. And worse yet “Windows Phone 7 also entered the market with lower share … Read more
… or are you just sending me a ringtone? Union organizers, Egyptians and paranoids listen up because XDA’s Fredly has cooked up StegDroid just for you. By means of steganography, and he’s doing his dissertation on it so you know this app is high-grade primo academic shit, you may type your top secret message, then … Read more
The Nook Color never made sense to me as an eReader but as a $250 Android tablet running Honeycomb…well that may make a lot more sense. It’s got a 1024×600 7” screen, 800mhz TI A* chip, expandable memory and built in wifi. Oh right, the video (skip to 2:15 when it’s done booting): OK so … Read more